Spool-holder



(No Model.)

J. M. PIERRE.

SPOOL HOLDER.

Patented Apr. 1892.

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JOSEPH M. PIERRE, OF FORT IVAYNE, INDIANA.

SPOOL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,080, dated April 19, 1892.

Application filed December 24,1891. Serial NQAIBJOZQ. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JosEPH M. PIERRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Vayne, in the county of Allen, in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spool-IIolders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in spool-holders for exhibiting, protecting, and securing spool-silk, and is specially designed for use in ordinary spool-cabinets.

The object of my improvement is to provide a spool-holder for spool cases or cabinets on which the spool's and their contents can be readily displayed or examined and conveniently removed without fraying the silk and on which the spools can be so arranged as to be secure against displacement or derangement by the violent shaking or the overturning of either the cabinet or the drawer in which my improvement is adjusted and used. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a spool-cabinet drawer in which my improvement is adjusted. Fig. 2 is avertical section of the same through the rod or wire 212 seen in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same on the line 6 f in Figs. 1 and 2.

Similar-letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In Fig. 1, A is a drawer for a thread-cabinet of well-known construction, into which my improvement is adjusted. The rods 10 w 102, of suitable material and of proper size for the convenient adjustment of spools s s s thereon,

are secured to the fulcrum F and regulated in the range of their upward movement by the stop 0 when operated by the springs 'Ht Wt m which are secured to the bottom D of drawer A by suitable rivets it B is a shelf, of proper height, upon which the other extremity of rods or spool-supports w w {(1 rest and to which they may be secured by means of the automatic springcatches n n n and the curved guides o o 0 h 71 h being the slotsin shelf D, in which springs w w 10 play.

In Fig. 2 is shown in vertical section the rod 10 preferably of the proper-sized wire, curved or coiled about the fulcrum F, with the coiled end of said rod so arranged as to engage the spring 'm. The stop 0 is secured to the end E of drawer A. The shelf B, having the spring-catchn secured thereto, is of such a height from the bottom D that the spools s will not at any time touch said bottom and of such a height that the rod 10 when fulcrum ed at F and secured by catch 42 will be parallel with bottom D.

In Fig. 3 is a detailed view showing the manner in which the free ends of rods 10 w 20 are engaged and secured by the springs n n n and the curved guides or staples o o 0 also showing the vertical slots 71 h 7L2, in which the said spring-catches play.

The manner of using and operating my improveinent above described is as follows: When my improvement is adjusted in the drawer of a spool case or cabinet, preferably three or other suitable number in each drawer, with a proper number of spools adjusted thereon, said spools will be in a convenient position for display, examination, or comparison of shades and colors without handling, soiling, or fraying the silk. They are alsoin a secure condition for shipment in a spool cabinet, for no ordinary amount of shaking or inverting of either the cabinet or the drawer containing my improvement will disarrange or injure the spools thereon. They are also in a most convenient position for selection of spools containing sewing silk and twist of corresponding shades or colors. When it is desirable to remove the spools from my spoolholder, a firm pressure against the top of spring 01 Fig. 2, will free the end of rod 10 when the upward pressure of spring m will then carry rod 20 and the spools thereon to the position seen in the dotted line in Fig. 2, the height to which the rod 10 is permitted to rise being regulated by the stop 0. \Vhen the rod w is thus freed from the spring-catch 07. the spools can be readily removed or replaced at pleasure. \Vhen it is desired to replace rod 20 in position for closing the drawer A, as seen in Fig. 1, the operator places the free end of rod 10 upon the curved guide 0 when a firm pressure upon rod 10 will force spring n back in slot h thereby allowing rod 10 to pass beneath spring n and rest upon shelf B, where by the automatic re-engagement of spring n it will be securely held in position, as seen in Fig. 3.

I am aware that a great variety of spoolholding devices are in u se but no spool-holder has ever been invented of which I am aware specially constructed and designed for exhibiting, protecting, and shipping spooled silk thread in spool-cabinets having a spool-supporting rod and an automatic spring-catch arranged and constructed as above described.

What I claim, therefore, as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A spool-holder consisting of a rod adapted for use in a spool-cabinet drawer, said rod being pivoted or coiled on a transverse pivotin JOSEPH M. PIERRE. Witnesses:

R. S. ROBERTSON, U. H. STEWART. 

